Running a poorly designed algorithm on a faster computer doesn’t make the algorithm better it just means you get the wrong answer more quickly. Discussing why quantum computing, despite its great potential, isn’t the answer, he writes: He discusses the areas in which machines already outpace humans, and the conceptual hurdles we still need to scale in order to achieve general-purpose, human-level AI. It took a century for such a universal computing machine to actually be built based on their theoretical work. He also provides a history of the hardware meant to carry this out, beginning most notably with Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, and Ada Lovelace’s larger intellectual step that it could be a more general reasoning machine applied to all subjects. It contains a brief history of the evolution of intelligence from single cell organisms to the utility, game, and probability theories that paved the way for us to model our machines as rational agents, based partly on the idea that we are ourselves rational agents, and why we might want to chart another course. It’s as if researchers are afraid of examining the real consequences of AI.īut Russell’s book is as much about the history of ideas and theories that have brought us this far as it is about where the technology we’ve developed based on those ideas is now leading us. Robots are imagined as individual entities carrying their brains with them, whereas in fact they are likely to be wirelessly connected into a single, global entity that draws on vast stationary computing resources. Speaking to the lack of imagination the AI community has in envisioning the future of their own research and development, Russell writes: The profound and mostly unanswered question at the foundation of AI researcher Stuart Russell’s new book on those efforts is “What if we succeed?” It is a question he has been asking, in publication, since he wrote his first textbook on artificial intelligence in 1995.īy 2013, I became convinced that the issue not only belonged in the mainstream but was possibly the most important question facing humanity. The prospect of conveying the culmination of that knowledge and information to intelligent machines is both incredibly exciting and potentially catastrophic. The result in our very human civilization. We have stood on the shoulders of giants, used and built upon the knowledge of our ancestors first through the word of mouth, and then through written language-mostly in the form of books. What human beings have been able to achieve has been the result of our unique ability to communicate and convey knowledge to each other and onto successive generations. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, Viking
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